SMH. As if slavery started 400 years ago.
to add to, with another story.
“The chiefs and peoples decided, ‘All right, we will not talk about it.’ They created a mythology that we were innocent bystanders whose land was raped by Europeans.”
Nat Amarteifio
“I was able to let go of that conscious thought about race,” Boyd said. “It was like having a psychic burden taken off of your shoulders, and you could just move.”
She didn’t realize she had more of that psychic burden to shed until a few years later. In 1994, then-Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings apologized for the African role in slavery. Other leaders and chiefs slowly followed Rawlings and gave their own apologies.
“And it just made me feel so much better,” Boyd said. “I stopped feeling resentful, you know, towards Africans about slavery.”
Mona Boyd
In particular, I found that Mrs. Boyd expressed she was happier in a homogenous population, but while she feels a sense of peace in accepting the apologies of tribal representatives who were involved in slave trading long before the first Portuguese showed up, she is still hostile towards America in spite of the opportunities given her, and equally hostile towards America’s apologies, unable to shake the blame America not Africa not Muslim Chiefs, mentality.